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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor

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